One of the problems is how do you get an AGI program to be 'aware' that it has found an appropriate solution to 'understanding' a situation without some kludgy method of external reinforcement? I believe that key structural insights may play an important role in this process. I assume that most learning takes place through an incremental process of accumulating small pieces of insight or know-how. However, key structural insights can act as bridges between smaller pieces and this process can then lead to small leaps of insight. In this situation a new piece of information (or a creative guess about how something works) can act as a key structural insight because it can bind many pieces of knowledge together. The leverage that the accumulating insight can provide in helping explain how other things work could then act to effectively reinforce the insight because alternative explanations would not as powerful.
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